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What was here before?
Mott Haven is named for inventor and entrepreneur Jordan L. Mott (1798-1866), who purchased 200 acres of lower Morrisania in the 1840s. Mott opened J.L. Mott Iron Works in Lower Manhattan in 1828, which was relocated to Mott Haven along the Harlem River in the 1840s before moving to Trenton, NJ in 1902. An industrial district and pockets of residential enclaves developed here in the mid-19th century, spurred by access to waterways and the construction of several bridges and rail lines connecting the South Bronx with Manhattan.
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